Doughnuts can be formed either by joining the ends of a long, thin piece of dough into a ring or by using a doughnut cutter which simultaneously cuts the outside and inside shape, leaving a doughnut shaped piece of dough and a doughnut hole from dough removed from the center.

Doughnuts, as ring-shaped items, are an important explanatory tool in the science of topology where the ring doughnut shape (a ring with a circular cross-section) is called a torus or toroid, and an example of using the ring doughnut as an illustrative term can be found in popular explanations of the Poincaré conjecture.

By analogy, doughnut is a slang term for a circular maneuver made with an automobile or other vehicle from a sharp turn in which the rear of the vehicle swings around, the rear tires constantly spinning, to form a larger circle as the front of the vehicle turns in a tight circular motion.

Doughnuts can be formed either by joining the ends of a long, thin piece of dough into a ring or by using a doughnut cutter which simultaneously cuts the outside and inside shape, leaving a doughnut shaped piece of dough and a doughnut hole from dough removed from the center.

Doughnuts, as ring-shaped items, are an important explanatory tool in the science of topology where the ring doughnut shape (a ring with a circular cross-section) is called a torus or toroid, and an example of using the ring doughnut as an illustrative term can be found in popular explanations of the Poincaré conjecture.

By analogy, doughnut is a slang term for a circular maneuver made with an automobile or other vehicle from a sharp turn in which the rear of the vehicle swings around, the rear tires constantly spinning, to form a larger circle as the front of the vehicle turns in a tight circular motion.

Let the doughnutfry for 20 to 40 seconds or until the edge of the bottom is a light golden brown.

Warming the glaze before pouring it over the doughnuts tends to cause sheets of crystallized sugar to form on the surface of the glaze before it's poured, sometimes resulting in chunks of glaze sticking out of the surface of the doughnut.

Letting the doughnuts rise on the floured board works, but when a spatula is slid under them to transfer them to the fryer it invariably deflates them a little resulting in them not puffing as high.

In an excellent essay on the doughnut published in the Smithsonian magazine in 1998, writer David A. Taylor credits its birth to Elizabeth Gregory, a New England ship captain's mother, who friedcakes with the spices her son transported.

The doughnut quickly worked its way into American culture, becoming such a symbol of home that women volunteered to bring doughnuts to soldiers in the trenches during World War I. The mechanized doughnut machine came about in the 1920s, an invention of a czarist Russian living in New York City, according to Taylor.

Doughnuts have so changed their image that they've become a refuge for dot-com drop-outs John Brand and Tony Ellis, two ex-techies who are turning the old Clover Leaf Creamery in Fremont into a doughnut and burger restaurant called Cops Donuts, designed to look like a 1940s police station.

Tucked in a corner of North Cambridge, it is a holdover from another time, a one-room doughnut shop where the owner, Andy Stasiak, still makes every cruller, coffee roll, and lemon stick by hand, just the way he learned from his mother, Verna, who opened the shop in 1941.

Over coffee and scratch tickets, they mourned the loss of their meeting place with its pink wallpaper, coffee-mug-shaped clock, and brass bell on the counter to ring for service.

And then she picked up a honey-dipped doughnut in a sheet of wax paper.

Tasty, feel-good foods like doughnuts are not only difficult to resist, they can actually lead to addiction for people who have stronger than normal genetic tendencies to enjoy foods that are especially high in fat and sugar.

Even though eating a single doughnut is unlikely to seriously harm you, doing so can prevent you from eating more nutritionally dense, whole foods by not only filling you up with empty calories, but the calories they do have are full of brain-busting trans-fats that can devastate your health.

Krispy Kreme is probably a good barometer of the public's interest in doughnuts, and their stock is currently down more than 80 percent from 2004.

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After almost three months of empty classrooms, Clarksburg Elementary School Principal Karen Gallese is happy to hear the patter of feet in the corridors.

As reported in this article, Krispy KremeDoughnuts Inc. announced in an 8-K filing that it has reached another in a string of settlements of franchisee litigations, this time with Illinois-based franchisee...

Inventors of the Doughnut as We Love It Ensign Purviance coaxed the wood fire in the potbellied stove to keep it at an even heat for frying.

After several soldiers asked, "Can't you make a doughnut with a hole in it?", Ensign Purviance had an elderly French flsmith improvise a doughnut cutter by fastening the top of a condensed milk can and camphor-ice tube to a wooden block.

The simple doughnut became a symbol of all that the Salvation Army was doing to ease the hardships of the frontline fighting man -- the canteens in primitive dugouts and huts, the free refreshments, religious services, concerts, and a clothes-mending service.

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The Famous Doughnut serves as an extension of The Salvation Army's mission to battle hunger, homelessness and hopelessness in communities across the United States.

Each time a box of Famous Doughnuts is sold, The Salvation Army's financial ammunition against hopelessness, homelessness and hunger is replenished.

Boxes of Famous Doughnuts are currently available at Fred Meyer stores in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington, and at Ralph’s stores in Southern California.

A group of astrophysicists studying fl holes have produced more evidence for the theory that massive fl holes are surrounded by a doughnut shaped gas cloud called a torus.

The scientists were able to infer the doughnut shaped structure and distance from the fl hole by virtue of light that was either reflected or completely absorbed.

Other scientists say that the doughnut shape is more intact closer to the accretion disk, but that it cannot maintain structural integrity farther away, perhaps resembling a doughnut with part of its edges eaten away.

And doughnut lovers across the country could soon join him in reaching for a less unhealthy treat — even if they're not trying — as regulators and retailers pressure food companies to drop artery-clogging trans fats.

Rather than worrying the shift will gobble up their market niche, some natural doughnut makers say they're happy to see the food industry abandoning ingredients that gave the industrialized doughnut a bad rap.

But parent Dunkin' Brands Inc. is invading the South with a different sort of doughnut — thicker and cakier than the traditional Southern treat from Krispy Kreme, which is lighter, sugar-glazed and served hot.

Executives at both companies say their doughnuts have a universal appeal, but Rando says there's no middle ground.

Rosemary Evans was clearly in the Krispy Kreme camp as she shared a dozen doughnuts with her children on a recent Saturday morning.